The Weaving News
Here’s a brief Crownpoint Rug Auction update. According to the auction’s Facebook page and web site, an auction will be held on September 12, which would have been the originally scheduled date. I would advise contacting those sources for the latest information and to confirm the date before you travel to the auction. Hagoshíí (so…
Yesterday was one of the saddest days of my life. The venerable Crownpoint Rug Auction was abruptly cancelled amid severe financial problems. Weavers have reported difficulties with returned checks for the last few months and this reached a crisis level in July as check cashing establishments throughout the area are refusing to accept any checks…
Ganado, AZ It just doesn’t get better than a Sunday at a Sheep is Life event for Jennie Slick and me. Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site hosted the event today and there were areas where people could learn about carding and spinning, vegetal dyeing and weaving. Jay Begay, Beverly Allen, Ilene Naegle and Jennie…
Of course you do! Come to Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site on July 13! Ganado, AZ This coming Sunday, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site will hold a one day sheep, wool and weaving workshop. Topics include hands-on shearing with manual scissors, carding, spinning, felting, loom warping and weaving. The event kicks off at…
Tempe, AZ Gilbert Begay has just completed weaving a two-faced rug. He started it about six months ago, encouraged and tutored by prolific two faced weavers Harriet and Virginia Snyder. A two-faced Navajo rug is a very rare weaving today and documentation on the technique is sparse. For those of you who are familiar with…
Melissa Cody comes from a family of phenomenal weavers. Her grandmother, Martha Schultz has woven for over six decades and her mother Lola Cody has won prizes at both the Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market and at the Santa Fe Indian Market. In addition to her impeccable weaving lineage, Melissa is a graduate…
So just like everyone else, I wonder where 2013 went, but I can look through my picture library and get a pretty good idea. If you take 5000 pictures a year at work, you can tell what you’ve been up to. I guess that’s what the people at Facebook are banking on. Now, I’ve…
For about the last six weeks, all of the conversations that I’ve been involved in with Navajo weavers have included this question: “Are you going to the Gathering of Weavers”? Over the last five years, this unique event at the Heard Museum has become an important venue for master weavers who sell their…
The Heard Museum Gathering of Weavers is a unique event where Navajo weavers market their work directly to customers. It started as a fairly small event five years ago and has struggled somewhat to find a niche in a tight economy, but it seems to have reached that spot where the weavers find it a…
Florence Riggs brought her hogan interior weaving to the Gathering of Weavers at the Heard Museum. It’s woven from Brown Sheep’s finer weight yarn and is set at 10 warps per inch. There are over 50 rows in each inch! Florence’s weaving didn’t find a buyer at the Heard, so its still for sale directly…